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Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
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Edward Bellamy

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Whatever time thy golden eyelids ope
They travel to a hope;
Not only backward from these low degrees
To starry dynasties,
But, looking far where now the silence owns
And rules from empty thrones,
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